Inspector West is up against a clutch of ruthless hoodlums who will stop at nothing to achieve their objective. West's search leads him to the world's most illustrious anthropologists.

With the assistance of his ham-fisted but talented associate, Venables, West uncovers a syndicate illegally operating a mining venture in central Australia, an area which contains a great anthropological discovery. The Inspector emerges, solution in hand and reputation intact.

Genre: Mystery